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This website is dedicated as a place where fellow Americans may convene to share in the celebration of the magnificent heritage of our great nation. We recognize the need for eternal vigilance to defend against the constant threat from those who seek to undermine our God given rights as so eloquently inscribed by our Founders into the nation’s founding charter, the United States Constitution.

Candidates for the 2012 Presidential Election have already begun to formally announce their campaigns even while the eligibility of the candidates for 2008 are still considered unresolved by a large segment of the electorate.That is a FACT.

The facts surrounding the eligibility of Barry Soetoro AKA Barack Hussein Obama are not limited to the differences between a Birth Certificate and a Certification of Live Birth, or COLB; they extend to whether his status as a “natural born Citizen” is in compliance with the requirements set forth in the Constitution.

When naturalization records for Andy Martin’s father surfaced on the internet which has a direct bearing on his natural born Citizenship status, I felt compelled to address it in an open letter to Mr. Martin whereby “We the People” respectfully demand he publicly establish proof of his eligibility that would stand up in a court of law (not withstanding standing).

Since the media was not only negligent in vetting candidates in 2008, but also complicit in allowing the Usurpation of the Office of the Presidency to continue unabated; I felt as though due diligence was in order and decided to seek to determine if Mr. Martin’s eligibility could be established with certainty. Taking a politician’s word for it is not sufficient. The burden of proof for a prospective candidate is greater because they would need to show conditions for all the requirements are in compliance, whereas someone other than the prospective candidate to arrive at the same conclusion need only show deficiency in one area. Notice, I said prospective candidate. In an ideal world based on common sense you would assume candidates for the highest office in the land would have to prove compliance with the requirements BEFORE they are allowed to run. Unfortunately, in the United States; that is currently not being enforced.

In the case of Andy Martin the only way possible to determine his eligibility was to obtain certified copies of his parent’s naturalization records. The first thing that had to be determined was if the person in question was in fact deceased. Several genealogical websites are available at no cost that can be used to determine the dates for birth and death, as well as the division within the court system where the naturalization records were processed.

Because Andy Martin’s father is deceased and Freedom of Information laws consider the naturalization records of deceased individuals to be of public record and accessible, I submitted a request with the National Archives and Records Administration, or NARA .

Answer: For the additional fee, certified copies are affixed with a formal NARA statement and embossed seal to declare that they are true copies of original documents in NARA’s legal custody. Certified copies may be used for legal purposes such as court submissions and Social Security applications.

The naturalization records obtained for Andy Martin’s father were "CERTIFIED."

“To all whom these presents shall come. Greeting:

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Archivist ofthe United States, I certify on his behalf, under the sealof the National Archives and Records Administration,that the attached reproduction(s) is a true and correctcopy of documents in his custody.”

Although Weicker unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for President in 1980, “the former Connecticut politician sought a legal analysis when considering the presidency, an aide said, and was assured he was eligible.”

If the news media had fulfilled their obligation to the American people, the nation wouldn’t be in the grips of its current Constitutional Crisis now.

As irony would have it, Weicker was on the Senate committee investigating the Watergate scandal when he delivered a “Republican’s don’t cover up” speech.

The stark reality is that, even though ineligible candidates have made it on the ballot; the news media never reported these events to the nation as a whole in the context for what they truly represented, and that is it put our nation on the precipice of disaster.

“Permit me to hint whether it would not be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of foreigners into the administration of our national government; and to declare expressly that the command in chief of the American army shall not be given to, nor devolve on any but a natural born citizen.”

George Washington was not a go along to get along kind of guy. He was a true statesman and respected in every capacity. He fully understood his responsibilities and met them head on.

It is evident that from 1785-1790 he availed himself of the scholarly resources requisite to preside over the creation of the founding charter of our nation, as seen here when he checked out of the New York Society Library, a copy of Emerich de Vattel’s “Law of Nations.”

The writings of Vattel, with his masterful treatise the “Law of Nations”in particular

The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.

These are clear and unequivocal circumstances at birth:

- As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.

- The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent.

- I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.

Subsequently it is no accident that the advice was heeded and written into the President Eligibility clause of the Constitution, the law of the land.

There is nothing you can DO to BE a natural born Citizen. It is your status at birth. Either your ARE, or you are NOT.

It is so simple a concept, that even a child can understand it.

The media has said that just because a case against the President of the United States is placed on the court docket does not make it newsworthy, and the reason why is because they have predetermined all of them to be frivolous. The media wants to limit the debate about Presidential Eligibility to whether or not Obama has a REAL birth certificate.

“The Justice wanted to know Plaintiff's understanding of the difference between "Native" and "Natural" born citizen on the argument of blood and soil under the Law of Nations as well as Vienna Convention matters as to citizenship status of the children of diplomats and tourists who were not certified admitted by the Customs Service; and that Plaintiff filed a copy of the SCOTUS decision in McCreery's Lessee v Somerville 22 US 354 (1824); the Justice responded favorably with his familiarity with the difference between the Natural and Native born as there is within Jewish law similar precedent and agreed that Barack Hussein Obama as a prima facie matter is not natural-born because his father was a student from Kenya and as a British subject and a 18 year old U.S. Citizen mother Barack Hussein Obama based upon his own admission is only Native Born. ”

“The justice reiterated the Court's position that BHO is not a natural born Citizen because his father is a British subject with a student visa.

The Justice stated that Strunk has standing vis-à-visMcCain not being a NBC, and that the scheme to defraud has a 6 year statutory window easily traceable to the November 2008 election.”

The historic significance of Mr. Christopher Strunk’s hearings transcends politics and preserves the Spirit of the Law as laid down by the Framers within the Constitution as a defense against a nation governed by divided loyalties. For the news media to embargo that should also be a headline.

Everyone is endowed with varying degrees of wisdom and discernment, however ignoring an innate sense of right and wrong merely because pundits and talk show hosts fancy themselves as the societal arbiters of knowledge can lead you to a myopic view of justice. What we are now experiencing on a national scale is the defense of a legal argument devoid of discovery as opposed to an official juridical opinion exercised in a court of law with absolute resoluteness.

Every fiber of your being should be telling you that the authoritative declaration of the Honorable Supreme Court Justice Schmidt as proclaimed by virtue of reason in a legal context in the course of a legal proceeding based on the merits at the heart of the issue deserves more credence than a television graphic that says “debunked.”

This is a case, where I represent former U.N. AmbassadorAlan Keyes, 10 state representatives and 30 membersof US military."10-55084 | 09-56827

"Second case is in New OrleansEastern District of Louisiana500 Poydras Street, Room C-151New Orleans, LA70130I was granted an oral argument on my motionfor a leave of court to join an ongoing caseHornBeck v Salazar. This case revolves aroundObama administration's capricious actions inimposing moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico,and after the District Judge ordered to lift themoratorium, Obama regime is de facto refusingto comply by refusing to grant drilling permits.My argument is, that there is a common threadin this and my cases, as all of the anti-Americanactions are coming from one, who is not legitimatein the White House, and who is sitting there withouta valid long form birth certificate and without avalid Social Security number of his own."

In light of the fact our national media is intent on subverting theConstitution by allowing candidates with treasonable pursuits thatdo not qualify by simply implying the “Law of Nations” is irrelevant,here is another example that is irrefutably and irrevocably woveninto the fabric of our national heritage:

John Tyler, Jr. (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862)

Tenth President of the United States (1841–1845)

President John Tyler in his first State of the Union Address

From the Congressional Globe

27th Congress, 2nd Session

December 7th, 1841

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“This Government can never concede to any foreign government the power, except in a case of the most urgent and extreme necessity, of invading its territory, either to arrest the persons or destroy the property of those who may have violated the municipal laws of such foreign government or have disregarded their obligations arising under the …law of nations."

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If there wasn’t a barrier to eligibility based on Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 in the Constitution, then we would not have seen 5 attempts in Congress to redefine the term natural born Citizen in the last few years, all of which were unsuccessful. Remember, the Constitution is the law of the land. Not even a Senate Resolution which is non-binding can alter that fact as well. Until the requirement of being a natural born Citizen, born on the soil (Jus Soli) with two citizen parents at the time of birth (Jus Sanguini) is pre-empted by a Constitutional amendment, any attempt to become President of the United States would be an attempt to subvert the Constitution.

Barry Soetoro AKA Barack Hussein Obama is a Usurper. He is NOT a natural born Citizen based on his own admission evidenced on his own campaign website where he says his father was from Kenya, was never a U.S. Citizen, and subject to the British Crown at the time of his birth. Barry Soetoro AKA Barack Hussein Obama therefore inherited his father’s Citizenship status which meant he had DUAL ALLEGIENCES. Having one American parent can only bestow citizenship, NOT NATURAL BORN CITIZENSHIP. They are not synonymous with regard to requirements for the Office of the President of the United States . If that were the case, any terrorist, (take your pick Bin Laden, Ahmadinejad, Guatanamo Baby, etc.) with intent to bring harm to our nation could father a child, the mother could join any one of hundreds of daily expeditions crossing our porous southern sovereign border for the sole purpose of circumventing our immigration laws, birth the child on our soil and then take the golden child back to their country. Twenty-one years later the golden child could immigrate to America and 14 years later, the master plan for a Manchurian Candidate with the assistance of the nefarious efforts of industry magnets such as George Soros desirous of fundamentally changing America could be executed with precision.

For the Doubting Thomas’ among you, the act of Barry Soetoro to gain the highest office in the land is undoubtedly the Outlier of our time:

Now that you have witnessed with your own eyes Soetoro/Obama’s campaign website declare him to be a “native” citizen, observe the audacity of fraud on an unimaginable scale where Soetoro/Obama simultaneously declares himself to be a “natural born Citizen” with his own handwritten signature on an official document proffered to a Secretary of State.

The act of compromising our nation’s national security has moved beyond the realm of plausibility, beyond eventuality; it has become manifest. The strong check against foreign influence from becoming Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces has happened in FACT. Eventually, one of the sovereign 50 states will have to step up to the plate and stop this suicidal madness befallen our nation.

When Geraldo Rivera, as has an untold number of pompous, obviously biased and misinformed (if not traitorous) media personalities have done over the past three years, asks Donald Trump in this video “You’ve never seen George W. Bush’s birth certificate have ya”, he is inferring two things. First, you are racist for merely asking the question; and second with twisted logic he is putting forth the absurd analogy that just because the questioner never actually held a certified hard copy of a long form birth certificate with the doctor’s signature of former President George W. Bush, who immediately preceded putative President Soetoro/Obama; than that in some way indicates a definitive assurance that every other President to date has been eligible.

Anyone presented with this line of questioning should say:“I reject the premise of your question and shall I remind you of the legal penalties for being a traitor?”

Surely even William Shakespeare in a parallel dimension can see the virtue of Donald Trump’s questioning the mere non-existence of a birth certificate for the hamlet organizer better known as Soetoro/Obama in light ofHamlet's opening soliloquy:

“To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?”

Another deplorable example of media malpractice can be evidenced here at the 2:50 mark, where Sean Hannity mistakenly claims the Constitution says you have to be a naturalized citizen to be President, when in FACT the Founders specifically set forth and stipulated in Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 that you must be a “Natural Born Citizen”, one born on U.S. soil to two citizen parents in order to prevent Usurpation of the office of the President and Commander-in-Chief by a rogue double-crosser with dual allegiances. Hannity is purportedly well known for being a relentless investigator during his early years as a radio personality, yet now refuses to just read theactual words aloud for all the world to hear.

The apologists scattering the information superhighway that have shown they would blindly follow Soetoro/Obama off a cliff, would do well to word up. The perfunctory notion that because Soetoro/Obama is squatting in the oval office at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and acting as President, somehow therefore he obviously must have been eligible is stupendously and egregiously dimwitted; considering the national security implications and the overwhelming preponderance of evidence indicating fraud on an unimaginable scale to have been perpetrated on the overly trusting electorate. We’re not talking about a little league baseball player submitting a forged birth certificate here; this is a requirement to be enforced when nominating the leader of our nation and our Armed Forces, regardless of the “Free World.” With a swift stroke of a pen representing the DNC, Nancy Pelosi perpetrated fraud by issuing different Certificates of Nomination forms; where the responsibility to verify Soetoro/Obama’s Constitutional qualifications was omitted in 49 of 50 states, and actually remiss in all 50. This political “coup de main” portends a troubling time for a nation that has fallen prey to treacherous ideologues willing to wrest supreme power at all cost.

Going on three years, the cacophony of Alinsky insults by the media has yet to dissuade the Constitutionalists better known as “birthers” from backing down, and despite their best efforts to quell the issue and “move on”, a recent scientific poll by WND and Wenzel Strategies has shown that 91% have doubts about Soetoro/Obama having shown the documentation required to be eligible. Make no mistake, Americans are actually paying attention and seeking out information from alternative sources via the internet and the TRUTH will prevail. The reality is Karl Rove is a traitor for calling Trump a joke candidate. He is putting politics over the rule of law. Lest we forget, a decorated LTC Terrence Lakin is sitting in Fort Leavenworth for asking the exact same thing as Trump. Karl Rove is in essence calling LTC Terry Lakin a joke. I repeat. Rove is putting politics over the Constitution and the rule of law which is traitorous. I can assure you the Lieutenant Colonel is not laughing. The only damage Trump might have inflicted upon his chances for the Presidency is with the leaders of the Republican Party, but not with the rest of America that wants the Constitution to be complied with. Donald Trump effortlessly, respectfully and FULLY complied when the same was asked of him. It took Mr. Trump less than 24 hours to pony up his official long form after giving the media a chance to scrutinize his hospital generated birth certificate. And he didn’t need a teleprompter or beer summit to get it done. Just honest, forthright transparency. The contrast is blinding.

When Mr. Trump sat down with Bill O’Reilly in the No Spin Zone, the travesty of a putative President never submitting a real birth certificate once again was brought up for discussion. As usual, Bill O’Reilly has for whatever reason decided that he will defend Soetoro/Obama referring to birth announcements from a newspaper as proof of Constitutional eligibility. So did LTC Lakin show a birth announcement when signing up for the Armed Forces? He did not. He provided a certified copy of his CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH.

As you can see the magnitude of deceit with regard to Soetoro/Obama’s ineligibility is practically incalculable.

However, because we now live in a digital age where virtually everything can be quantified…”there’s an App for that.”

One of the most prolific sources of information in this new age of media is unquestionably Google and Yahoo. They are either complicit in adding to the deceit surrounding the term “natural born Citizen” considering the results generated in their online Translate tools, or one is to believe a sequence of only 3 words is too complex for their algorithms.

Since you are required to be a natural born Citizen to be President, you would expect to find these qualifications conveyed somewhere publicly online at the White House website. However, I guess a complete copy of the U.S. Constitution is out of the question.

TEACHER: Our field trip today boys and girls is to the White House website to learn about the Constitution and the qualifications to be President.

“You are exiting the White House web server. We hope your visit was informative and enjoyable.”

(WHITE HOUSE) You must leave and go to the Senate. Move along now, nothing to see here except HOPE and CHANGE.

Is Soetoro/Obama About To Get Trumped? There has to be a controlling authority to VERIFY proffered documents. As we have seen as of late, some states are taking it upon themselves to address the issue as it is fully within their right and obligations to provide free and fair elections for their citizens. Yet the poisonous apple of election debauchery will once again ripen to be plucked from the tree and the cauldron of politics is still brewing. Even though the genesis for most of these eligibility bills have purely been efforts to enforce the Constitution, some legislators have tried hard to make it easy to circumvent the Constitution by adding language that is completely contrary to the Spirit of the Law instituted by the Founders. In some instances, what can only be described as a poison pill have been inserted into the bill in order to prevent it from ever moving out of a legislative committee or otherwise guarantee it to be DOA when it reaches the Governor's desk for signing. The greater number of times the word DISCRETION is written into an election law you can bet it is inversely proportionate to the sanctity of the vote. The APPARENT CONFORMITY for a candidate’s eligibility IS NOT equivalent to the ASSURANCE thereof. Just when someone like Donald Trump comes along and does the right thing (you know it when you see it), those tasked with verifying eligibility have to be completely prepared for holding everyone up to the same high standard as opposed to dragging us all down to the least common denominator. It has nothing to do with being fair or spreading the wealth around. The Natural Born Citizen requirement was instituted into the Constitution as a strong check against tyranny and foreign influence from gaining hold of the highest echelons of our seat of government. Just as there will always be candidates with a propensity to lie, the system must also be prepared for those candidates that would say “maybe I’ll try to cheat just this once.” No exceptions. Period. What if a state’s Secretary of State as the final arbiter of facts chooses to exercise wide latitude of discretion and is of the opinion (personal or otherwise) that only one citizen parent is required to meet the definition of Natural Born Citizen? Eternal vigilance is the price we must pay for security.

So we must now conclude that no one in the MSM has any desire or intention of vetting a candidate for eligibility, let alone providing that “strong check” against foreign influence. Therefore it is now incumbent upon “We the People” to only elect representatives who understand the Constitution…and demand it be enforced by both the letter and the spirit.

hearing and admitted as an exhibit in such hearing.The hearing panel shall employ its experience, technical

competence, and specialized knowledge in evaluating the

evidence presented at the hearing for the purpose of making

its finding of factsand arriving at a final determination.

Mr. Trump is on the right track. Our derelict (if not traitorous) representatives may not be listening to the will of the people; but the country would be well served to have an educated discussion with all of the facts on the table about this travesty. Since Mr. Trump appears to honestly be addressing this issue, it would be in his (and our) best interest to politely let him know that the greater significance to the Soetoro/Obama obfuscations is the harm that can befall our great nation in the event of a worst case scenario, or coup d'état. It is painfully obvious that Soetoro/Obama is unnervingly content (if not smug) with perpetrating the conditions whereby an ineligible candidate runs as though they are qualified; and then takes office as though they are qualified.

It is now painfully obvious our nation must change course and demand no less than enforcement of the Constitution in its entirety.

To allow Soetoro/Obama to completely evade serious and authoritative vetting is such an extremely dangerous precedent to set, that even an ex-CIA operative was compelled to publicly decry it as such. The consequences of “faulty vetting” he says is so serious it can be devastating, even “deadly”.

Being politically correct in the age of nuclear weapons whereby dissuasion and prevention of a national debate on the Usurpation of the Office of the President of the United States, let alone not demanding the obvious course of action being to remove them; should not be tolerated.

“If you do not provide each item of the requested information, however, we will not be able to complete your investigation, which will adversely affect your eligibility for a national security position.”

For those of you not having any experience with matters of national security and security clearances who might think this to be a bit esoteric and theoretical, take note of a DOD decision in a recent case brought before the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals:

“The burden of disproving a mitigating condition never shifts to the Government.”

“Because of the extreme sensitivity of security matters, there is a strong presumption against granting a security clearance. Whenever any doubt is raised . . . it is deemed best to err on the side of the government’s compelling interest in security by denying or revoking [a] clearance.” Dorfmont v. Brown, 913 F.2d 1399, 1401 (9th Cir. 1990).

“In light of all the circumstances presented…it is not clearly consistent with the national interest to grant eligibility for a security clearance…eligibility for a security clearance is denied.”

Soetoro/Obama’s relationship with Odinga should have been enough to prevent him from consideration as a Presidential candidate and still to this day he evinces indefensible foreign allegiances that supersede his loyalty to this nation.

“See Directive ¶ E3.1.14. “Substantial evidence [is] such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion in light of all the contrary evidence in the record.”

“The protection of the national security is the paramount consideration. AG ¶ 2(b) requires that “[a]ny doubt concerning personnel being considered for access to classified information will be resolved in favor of national security.”

“His serious professional misconduct (violating court orders, misleading the court, filing frivolous actions, and lying to the courts) demonstrate questionable judgment, lack of candor, dishonesty, or unwillingness to comply with rules and regulations. His behavior triggers the applicability of disqualifying conditions”

AG ¶ 16(a): “deliberate omission, concealment, or falsification of relevant facts from any personnel security questionnaire, personal history statement, or similar form used to conduct 14 investigations, determine employment qualifications, award benefits of status, determine security clearance eligibility or trustworthiness, or award fiduciary responsibilities;” and AG ¶ 16(e) “personal conduct or concealment of information about one’s conduct, that creates a vulnerability to exploitation, manipulation, or duress, such as (1) engaging in activities which, if known, may affect the person’s personal, professional, or community standing.”

From the government’s perspective, the Usurpation of the Presidency is a perfect storm scenario, whereby national security is at risk from a foreign entity leveraging Soetoro/Obama’s conflicting allegiances.

The digital image of the Certification of Live Birth “Photoshopped” by “Ducky” would not be sufficient to satisfy the requirements of SF86.

The Laws of the Territory of Hawaii ACT 96 which provided for the issuance of Certificates Of Hawaiian Birth was in effect from 1911 until 1972 and allowed someone born outside the Hawaiian Islands to be registered as though they were born in Hawaii.

What’s a Socialist to do with a COLB? Run for President no less of course. The Socialist Workers Party has run candidates for President since 1948. In the U.S. presidential election of 2008 The Socialist Workers Party ran Róger Calero even though he was born in Nicaragua. In 2004 the Socialist Workers Party ran Róger Calero for President and Arrin Hawkins for Vice-President, both candidates were Constitutionally unqualified for the positions because Calero is not an American citizen and Hawkins was 29 years old, with the minimum age being 35. James Harris and Margaret Trowe, the SWP's ticket from 2000, stood in on the ballot in 11 states where Calero and Hawkins could not be listed. County clerks (in some states) and statewide Secretaries of State have discretion in reporting votes for ineligible candidates. The same situation obtained in 2008. However, having discretion and exercising it are two totally different things all together.

To those of you who are interested in the sanctity of the vote being upheld, the Georgia Election Advisory Council will begin hearings this week.

As for Mr. Trump’s persistent search for the Truth with regard to the absence of a birth certificate and subsequent proof of eligibility for a sitting putative President (yet to vet), to thine own self be trueMr. Trump, to thine own self be true.

BREAKING BIG DEAL NEWS! - Tea Party Nation Takes on the Eligibility Issue At one minute after midnight on July first, just in time for the Forth of July weekend, Tea Party Nation has sent an important policy statement to all of the membership. Here it is:

http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2011/07/breaking-big-deal-news-tea-party-nation.html# # # # # # #Do you think that the birth document released by Obama on April 27th put an end to speculation about Obama's ineligibility? Gallup Poll after release of fake birth certificate May 5-8, 47% of those surveyed say they believe the president was "definitely" born in the United Stateshttp://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2011/06/do-you-think-that-birth-document.html# # # # # # #Scientific Poll.- Half of Americans would like Congress investigate Barack Obama's eligibility and nearly that many believe the definition of the constitutional term "natural born citizen" means both parents must be U.S. citizens.http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2011/06/obama-ineligibility-scientific-poll.html

His mother hated America and its' capitalistic ways. "They are not my people!".(Dreams From My Father pg.47) This is what Obamas' mother shouts at her second husband. He had made the mistake of asking her how she could hate Americans so much when after all, they were her people. One thing Obama has proved to us time and time again is "we are not his people!"